Dr. Cláudia Maria de Almeida graduated in Architecture and Town Planning from the University of Sao Paulo—USP (1989), has a Master's Degree in Infrastructure Planning from the Centre for Infrastructure Planning, Universität Stuttgart, Germany (1995), accomplished part of her PhD in Remote Sensing at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis—University College London, England, UK (2002) as an affiliate researcher, and achieved a PhD in Remote Sensing from INPE (2003). She concluded a post-doc program in Spatial Dynamic Modelling at INPE in 2004. She is currently a Senior Researcher—Level III—at INPE, where she coordinates the CITIES Laboratory. She is an Accredited Professor at the Agrarian University La Molina (Peru) and was an Accredited Professor at USP, at the São Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) and at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). She was also an Invited Professor at the Graduate Programs in Applied Computer Science and in Earth System Science of INPE. Her experience comprises Geoscience, focusing on Remote Sensing, with a particular emphasis on the following subjects: Urban Remote Sensing, Town Planning, Cellular Automata, Urban Modelling, High Resolution Sensors, OBIA, and Geomatics.